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Mouse TalesVol 5 - Issue 3 July 2006Contents
President's MessageHello, CyberStitchers! I hope the weather is treating you well - those Down Under are 'chillin' out', while the rest of us are roasting. But hopefully somewhere, the weather is being reasonable. : ) It's hard to believe, but it' almost time for school to start again! Most of you know that I work for a local high school, and you *might* know that my son will be a senior this year - but you probably *don't* know that I'll also have my daughter there, who will be a freshman. Everyone asks my husband (who graduated from this school) why he doesn't try to get on at EMHS, and he tells them, "I've already done my time there - it's someone else's turn!" (gggg) Even so, I'm thrilled to have both my kids with me at work this year! I hope you've had some good stitching time lately! I'm trying, but I've also begun scrapbooking, so I'm working on whatever project strikes me for that day. But I really do need to get back to my stitching more frequently! I know I'm not the only one who's signed up for more GCCs this year than sanity could possibly allow! I have two that are registering right now. What were we thinking?! If you've received a notice for payment of your GCCs, please take care of it as soon as you can. If you've decided not to take the class after all, please let Anne Long, our Education Chair, know so she can open up the space for someone else who might want it. Speaking of stitching, please be sure to consider the President's Challenge for this year, Artist Trading Cards! I haven't managed to get one finished yet, but I've been trying to come up with an idea for my first. For hints and tips, and even pictures of some finished ones, check out the website (www.cyberstitchers.org). Hopefully this will spark your imagination! Until next time, please be safe out there, and enjoy what you're doing, whatever it is! Kelly Jackson
Chapter NewsWe currently have 208 members! Meeting each other at National:For those heading to National Seminar at Richmond in September there is going to be a special interest group table set aside for CyberStitchers in the Express Lunch area - a great opportunity to put faces to names and talk in person! Also, Lynn reported that the moderator for the EGA National's yahoogroups created a database where people could enter info about what classes/tours/lectures they have signed up for. Lynn graciously has set up such a database for us on our Chat4CyberStitchers. Go to the Chat4 group and look under Databases. Find out where everyone is going to be while at Richmond, and maybe some of us have classes in common. Have fun at National everyone! Volunteers Needed:We have a few open spots on our committees. We need a Region Rep Alternate, Parliamentarian, and two members for the Nominating Committee. The President would appoint the rep and the Parliamentarian, so anyone interested should email Kelly. The Nominating Committee members are elected. If you are interested, contact the committee chairperson, Marian for more info. We do have one volunteer for the rep position, but others should feel free to volunteer to help out. One of our own:We all wish to send our good thoughts and best wishes with one of our members, Lani Yearicks, as she prepares to deploy to Afghanistan. We'll be thinking of you Lani, and your husband and son, as well as our other members who have family members overseas!! Helen Cademy's memorial:The memorial for Helen Cademy, who was our first parliamentarian until her passing, has officially been completed. For those who are newer in the chapter, Helen was a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians, and taught parliamentary procedure for many years. In her memory, the chapter published a pamphlet of Robert's Rules of Order and distributed it to all the EGA chapters. Our chapter's copy arrived with the national President's mailing that went out June 20 and was received July 7. We have also heard from the Skyllkill Chapter of the Metropolitan Region that they received theirs. The Skyllkill parliamentarian reported that she was pleased with the pamphlet, and found it to be nicely written. This has turned out to be a very fitting and nice way to remember Helen. A copy of this pamphlet can be viewed in the cyberstiticers_ega newsgroup Files section. There is a nice tribute to Helen on the back cover. Applause for Rissa:Rissa is the Tennessee Valley Region's Golden Thread Award winner for
this year! The annual awards are given out by EGA's Education Department
to recognize those outstanding individuals who, on a local and/or region
level, have given freely of their time and talents to best exemplify the
purpose of this organization: to foster the highest standards of
excellence in the practice of the art of embroidery through an active
program of education and study. A total of 13 individuals may be
acknowledged - one from each of EGA's 13 regions, with the national
recipient selected from among the region recipients. Recipients receive
a pin and certificate of recognition and, if present at the EGA national
seminar, have the option of receiving these at the Education Awards Presentation
at the opening banquet. The criteria for determining the awards include
contributions to growth of embroidery education at a local and/or region
level and look at the nature and extent of service at a local and/or region
level. Rissa certainly meets the criteria! Applause for Jody:Our own Jody Maple has received third place in the Bobby Pilling Memorial Award competition for one of her original freeform hardanger designs. As such it will be part of the Education Exhibit. Jody also has another freeform hardanger piece in the National Exhibit at Glen Allen, and is doing the Williamsburg tour at Seminar on Wednesday. Well done Jody!!
Education ReportHere are the guidelines on how BEE operates: 1. Members who are taking the class as their benefit class have the first opportunity to sign up. Members are expected to take the class they voted for unless that class is not offered. If your choice is not selected for BEE 3, you will be allowed to select another class so long as it is not already full. 2. Other members will be allowed to join the class as fee-paying students. They will pay the text fee plus $16.50 for course fee and postage, if in the US; $20.00 if outside the US. The course fee and postage amount has gone up from last year due to the USPS raising their postage rates. 3. Members who already have the text but who want to take the course will be allowed to sign up during this time. They will pay the $16.50/$20.00 course and postage fee, but no text fee. 4. Any remaining openings will be made available to other EGA members through the EGA yahoo groups list and other such means. They will also pay the $16.50/$20.00 course and postage fee and the text fee (if they need the text). 5. Coordinators for the classes will not pay for their texts. Normally coordinators do not pay a share of the course fee as a way of thanking them for the work they do as coordinator. If someone is a coordinator, then the text fee counts as his/her benefit. We have a number of GCCs in various stages of progress: 17th C English Style Sampler, section 2 Payment collection is currently open for: Beading Color Play (8 open spots) Here's a quick rundown on the classes we'll be registering (or have registered) this year: Algerian Eye to cZar - registering 4th quarter; 6 open spots Crewel Choices has no registration time yet - 10 open spots These classes still have openings: Algerian Eye to cZar, Beading Color Play, Crewel Choices, Fantasy Remembered, Gracie, Grrcia, Handy Huswif, and Luck of the Irish. If you would like to join one of these classes, just send Anne L an email offlist. Petite Projects: The latest petite project has been uploaded to our yahoogroups website. The project is called "Rice Stitch Pincushion/Ornament and was designed by Kathleen Rake. Instructions on how to save and print the petite projects is in the Files
area of the petite project group. Here's the link to the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSPetiteProjects/files/ The project instructions are in pdf (Adobe) format. You will find the pdf file in the folder labeled "Current Petite Project". There is also a photo album labeled "Rice Stitch Pincushion" in the CSPetiteProjects yahoogroup where you upload photos, scans, etc of this project. If you upload a photo, etc, please put your name somewhere in the title so we know who it belongs to! Enjoy the project! BAM: BAM is Bead-a-Month and grew out of a Stitch-a-Month program we purchased for several years. Our own Rissa picked up with BAM when SAM ran out of new files.. All diagrams are maintained in the CS-Stitch-A-Month yahoogroup. Look in the Files section in the Folder labeled "Files for BAM". If you are not a member of the CS-Stitch-A-Month group but would like to be, send an email to: CS-Stitch-a-Month-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Stitch-a-long: We have a few stitch-a-long groups going now such as the ornament group and a bead group. Please let me know if there is an interest in a group stitchalong, a small meeting stitchalong, or any other similar ideas you might have. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me. Please address Education Committee questions to:
Outreach ProjectsJudi continues to accept handmade bookmarks for the chapter's Bookmarks
for Literacy project. The requirements are as follows: Our "Outreach for One" folder is still there to provide members with other ideas for outreach. Go to our cyberstitchers_ega Yahoo! group. Click on "Links", then on "Outreach for One" folder. Maintenance of this list now rests with the chapter members. We encourage members to post other links to charities you know of that need assistance, or you can send the information to our Outreach Chair, Lynn, and the committee will see that it gets posted. If you choose to participate in one of these programs, please do take photos of your finished pieces before sending them to the charity of your choice. Then post a little note to the Chat4 list (between meetings) or on our main cyberstitchers_ega list (during meetings) to let the rest of the membership see what you've done. That's our version of "show and tell" which is a regular feature of f2f (face to face) chapter meetings. We can also share them in future newsletters with your permission. Meg shared with us that she is a Blue Star Mom. That means she has a
child in the military. Her son is deployed to Iraq along with thousands of other troops.
Meg says our troops get a lot in the way of support from the country and from their families,
and for that she'd like to say thank you! Meg has been in contact with the Military Spouse Support Network, a nonprofit that helps military spouses of all branches cope with everything from the mundane to the extraordinary. Very many military spouses stitch as a way to relieve stress and as a moment of peace after the children have been put to bed. Meg is proposing another stash donation program - kits for these spouses who are just as courageous as their military mates and who get far less support. As with the Katrina program, donations would be sent to Meg who would repackage them and send them out to the wives of deployed personnel. MSSN has been gracious enough to help Meg get in contact with these people. Please contact Meg for further information on how to help, and show our support for our military personnel and their families! The committee always welcomes any ideas for chapter projects (either from the membership or the committee). As usual, it's a bit difficult to find something a chapter like ours can do. Any ideas will be gratefully accepted, and will be fully investigated by the committee. Please share your ideas with our Outreach Chair, Lynn.
Of InterestShop Review:If you head to South Jersey this summer to go to the beach, there are great shops to wander through in Cape May. At the top of the pedestrian Washington Street Mall, in the building where the horse buggy rides leave from, is Stitch by Stitch. This may not be a large shop, but there is a LOT packed into it. Threads, fibers, patterns - everywhere you look is full of goodies. The ceiling is rather high, and this allows for many models and painted canvases to go on the walls. All kinds of goodies are tucked in from Trail Creek's pillows to purse kits. There are, of course, all sorts of stitching accessories to tempt you. You will be welcomed by friendly faces, and receive just the right amount of attention. They do have a one page website with contact information, a few shop photos, store hours, and a coupon for a free Cape May chart: www.capemay4fun.com/stitchbystitch/stitchbystitch.html Angels for JoAnn:If anyone is still planning to make an Angel for Joann I will be collecting the stitched hankies to send to Hope Wright of the Prairie Arts Chapter. The deadline is August 15 for sending them to me. You can email me, Sue Sherburne, if you are interested in participating, and to get my snail mail address. This project was to share with our fellow stitchers in the Prairie Arts that had lost their outgoing president, JoAnn Cappellini, in December after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. As per JoAnn's wishes, Prairie Arts is decorating an angel tree for a Festival of Trees in JoAnn's memory. This is what you need to know: "We are going to be dressing 5" porcelain
dolls as angels, using hankerchiefs with embroidered corners for the dresses.
We want all white or gold, not colors. For the wings we will be using
some of my pre-1866 Godey's designs and adapting them, so that probably
isn't something the CyberStitchers could help with, but any hankies with
embroidered corners would work quite well. Thank you for considering this.
We need by September 1 in order to have time to complete the dresses." Dragonboats Class:The Dragonboats class is still up and running on yahoogroups.. A whole group of people just joined the class, so we will continue it for a while longer. If you are interested in making one of these cute little ornaments, the class is free for all members. Go to yahoogroups.com and sign up for CSDragonboats, or email Sue for an invitation.
Calendar:CyberStitchers Meetings:August 10-15, 2006:Board meeting of CyberStitchers from 9PM (ET) Thursday, August 10 through 9PM (ET) Tuesday, August 15. September 14-19, 2006:General meeting of CyberStitchers from 9PM (ET) Thursday, September 14 through 9PM (ET) Tuesday, September 19. Regional and National:July 5 - September 30, 2006 Modern Mixed Media ExhibitShirley K. Wolfersperger, Karen Schueler, and Emily Holcome at the Margaret Parshall Gallery, Louisville, KY. August 10-12, 2006 Birmingham Needlearts Chapter presents Deanna PowellAugust 10 Deanna Powell Lecture and Fashion Show August - Sep. 18th NATIONAL TRAVELING EXHIBITSouth Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota August 23 - 27, 2006 ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION SEMINAR
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